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So far, about 18 months. Have you ever asked one basic question: Why was the ambassador in Benghazi with a bunch of CIA operatives? The Embassy is in Tripoli.

My theory is the prez had something to do with the attacks. This is a good read...

According to her, Barack Obama, wanting an “October Surprise,” had secretly arranged with the Muslim Brotherhood for a kidnapping of our ambassador. Then sometime in October before the election Obama was to orchestrate some great military action to rescue Ambassador Stevens, causing all of America to cheer Obama’s strong foreign policy and bravery and making him look like a hero. After all, his supposed killing of Osama Bin Laden bounce had long since faded. Thus, sweeping him to victory in November. Imagine the headlines and talking points. The election would be a lock. The Muslim Brotherhood has every reason to want Obama re-elected in November and have an American President sympathetic to their causes. Not to mention an administration filled with Muslim appeasers. Therefore, they agreed to aid in these theatrics. Unfortunately for Ambassador Stevens and three others, the Brotherhood could not control the hired thugs that were to perform the kidnapping and things escalated and four American lives were lost. Panic set in at the White House and with little time to place blame as far away from Obama as they could, they settled on a ridiculous fairy tale about an irrelevant video posted four months prior on YouTube and ran with it. Barack Obama even ran with it after evidence showed he knew better and ran with it all the way to his speech at the U.N.
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Nick didnt respond to you and say "YOU said". He said "Obama and Hillary said..." (cuz again...nothing personal, but why would Americans at large care what you or I said?). The president and Sec of State lied. They have covered up. They have ignored. Its an issue because the questions have never been answered. A lot of people want it to go away because they know the answers suck.

Why would Nick respond to an argument I didn't make? I know we're talking about a guy who usually debates the Liberals that only exist in his head, but still.

The GOP will stop paying attention when their guy is sitting in the WH in 2017. Sawyer and Nick and apdst will stop caring, because they'll be too busy making excuses for their guy. The GOP knows it was a CIA thing. They know that the Marines don't go jumping in to every black op gone horribly wrong. They just want a weapon against Hillary, and when she isn't the candidate they'll stop talking about it.

If any of that was true, the Marines would have been jumping in with guns a-blazing.

They cannot go into a country without orders, that's an invasion. Why were those orders not given?

The plan was for them to stand down and have an easy kidnapping.

Why else do you think the Amb was rapped/sodomized, killed then rapped/sodomized again, then dragged through the streets? You realize the CIA ops that were instructed to stand down took out 80 militants that were attacking what they were told would be a soft target.

You know Stevens was alive when captured?

They didn't stand down. call it adrenaline, anger, etc...

Kidnapping turned into murder... probably as the mob grew from the shootings. The for hire guys were out numbered/maybe killed by the others.

Actually, it's very relevant to both. You don't go around telling the truth about CIA stuff, and you don't send in the Marines when it all goes to ****.

CIA hears chatter about an impending attack. Amb calls for more troops. Denied. CIA steps in and gives some help... They weren't supposed to be there. They weren't supposed to put up a fight.

It was supposed to be an October surprise for the election cycle.

Think about it.

There were no protesters at the Benghazi consulate prior to the attack, even though Obama and others repeatedly said the attackers joined an angry mob that had formed in opposition to the anti-Muslim film that had triggered protests in Egypt and elsewhere. The State Department disclosed this fact Oct. 9 — nearly a month after the attack.
Libya President Mohamed Magariaf insisted on Sept. 16 — five days after the attack — that it was a planned terrorist attack, but administration officials continued for days later to say there was no evidence of a planned attack.
Magariaf also said the idea that the attack was a “spontaneous protest that just spun out of control is completely unfounded and preposterous.” This, too, was on Sept. 16. Yet, Obama and others continued to describe the incident in exactly those terms — including during the president’s Sept. 18 appearance on the “Late Show With David Letterman.”
Matt Olsen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, was the first administration official to call it “a terrorist attack” during a Sept. 19 congressional hearing. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did the same on Sept. 20. Even so, Obama declined opportunities to call it a terrorist attack when asked at a town hall meeting on Sept. 20 and during a taping of “The View” on Sept. 24.